Somewhere between the AMM math and the on-chain debugging, something strange started happening. The bugs I was chasing weren't the hardest part of the day anymore. The hardest part was deciding what t...
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Somewhere between the AMM math and the on-chain debugging, something strange started happening. The bugs I was chasing weren't the hardest part of the day anymore. The hardest part was deciding what t...
I never sat down and weighed solo against team for this Solana MEV project. I just started. The reason is plain: I had a question I wanted answered — *can a regular developer carve out a slice of on-c...
I'm in week N of trying to integrate yet another Solana DEX into my MEV bot, and I just stared at a 404 page for two full minutes. The documentation link in the project's GitHub README points to a dom...
A few months into building an MEV bot on Solana, I started noticing something uncomfortable. The same question — Python or Rust? WebSocket or ShredStream? Simple polling or validator-level streaming? ...
There is a question I get asked maybe once a week now, and I have started asking it of myself in the quieter moments between deployments. It goes like this: *If you knew you were going to rewrite the ...
I open my notes folder tonight and scan the entries one by one. The pattern is hard to miss. The vast majority of what I have written down for this Solana MEV project is, by any honest accounting, a r...
I haven't landed a profitable trade yet. My current landing rate sits at 0% — every signal I have simulated either reverts on-chain or gets outpaced before submission. Before I burn another round of t...
I'm sitting in front of my terminal watching the bot tail logs, and something occurs to me that I can't unsee. Every trade my bot submits is a vote on a hypothesis: "this route, at this size, at this ...
A big swap just hit a Solana DEX. The same token's price on a different DEX hasn't moved yet — the two pools still think they're in sync, even though they aren't. There's a temporary mispricing, maybe...
I'm staring at the path discovery output again. The bot has surfaced thousands of theoretically profitable cycles, but the executable subset — the cycles I can actually fire transactions for — is a sm...
I was running my usual evening sanity check — comparing the swap activity my bot logged against the public dashboards on Solana DEX trackers. For the small and mid-sized pairs I focus on, the numbers ...
I have been staring at the same problem from different angles for weeks, and I am finally willing to call it what it is: the hardest puzzle in on-chain arbitrage. Not the algorithmic side. Not the on-...
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Somewhere between the AMM math and the on-chain debugging, something strange started happening. The bugs I was chasing weren't the hardest part of the day anymore. The hardest part was deciding what t...
I never sat down and weighed solo against team for this Solana MEV project. I just started. The reason is plain: I had a question I wanted answered — *can a regular developer carve out a slice of on-c...
I'm in week N of trying to integrate yet another Solana DEX into my MEV bot, and I just stared at a 404 page for two full minutes. The documentation link in the project's GitHub README points to a dom...
There is a question I get asked maybe once a week now, and I have started asking it of myself in the quieter moments between deployments. It goes like this: *If you knew you were going to rewrite the ...
I'm sitting in front of my terminal watching the bot tail logs, and something occurs to me that I can't unsee. Every trade my bot submits is a vote on a hypothesis: "this route, at this size, at this ...
I'm staring at the path discovery output again. The bot has surfaced thousands of theoretically profitable cycles, but the executable subset — the cycles I can actually fire transactions for — is a sm...
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